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Small businesses beware! Point-of-sale malware is after you

Malware targeting point-of-sale (POS) systems has been a major trend of the last six months or so, with a flock of interrelated malware families being sold, shared, exchanged, tweaked and improved by the various denizens of the cyber underworld. With … Continue reading

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Flickr Announces One Free Terabyte Of Storage Space Per User, Officially Beating Everyone

Yahoo’s Flickr photo-sharing service is now offering one full terabyte for users, enough storage space to hold whole swathes of the world’s photos. The service is offering this benefit in addition to its full resolution photo storage service. While the … Continue reading

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Syria goes dark for a while

The ATLAS infrastructure leverages Arbor Networks’ world-wide service provider customer base to gather data about Internet traffic patterns and threats.  Currently 246 of Arbor’s customers are actively participating in the ATLAS program, and are sharing data on an hourly basis. … Continue reading

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Apple fixes 41 iTunes security flaws, some more than a year old

Apple has released iTunes 11.0.3 for OS X and Windows today. This update fixes a certificate validation issue for both Mac and Windows. If this vulnerability were exploited an attacker would be able to spoof an SSL certificate without a … Continue reading

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Patch day from Microsoft

Microsoft released its monthly security update today that fixes a critical flaw in Internet Explorer (IE). Users are being advised to update their systems following the release of Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday security update, as the May edition includes a … Continue reading

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